Hi, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:58:57 -0700, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > >> On 09/06/2012 12:28 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: >> > Hi Nobuhiro, >> > >> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:20:59 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu >> > <iwama...@nigauri.org> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, Tom. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: >> >>> On 09/05/2012 04:18 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: >> >>>> Hi Nobuhiro, >> >>>> >> >>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:37 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu >> >>>> <iwama...@nigauri.org> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> Hi, >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:36 AM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 09:15:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> >>>>>>> Dear Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> In message >> >>>>>>> <CABMQnVLBEEjcEtfTzdeThHfTLp=b24qsognfjbzr-8ywytj...@mail.gmail.com> >> >>>>>>> you wrote: >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> I am working supporting Renesas RMOBILE to U-Boot. >> >>>>>>>> Renesas's RMOBILE SoC family contains an ARM Cortex-A9, and >> >>>>>>>> this uses the same IP as SH. >> >>>>>>>> (For example, timer, ether, serial, etc.) >> >>>>>>>> I already sent to patches of rmobile, I got review from some >> >>>>>>>> developers. And the patch is managed by the arm/rmobile >> >>>>>>>> branch of u-boot-sh[0] which I have maintained, now. >> >>>>>>>> Since I had you take the patch of rmobile into an ARM >> >>>>>>>> repository, I consulted with Albert about the >> >>>>>>>> future development approach. >> >>>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> We thought two methods are considered. >> >>>>>>>> One is Albert picks up a patch from ML to ARM repository, >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> As this is ARM code, this appears the most natural approach to >> >>>>>>> me >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> Another is whether to have pull from the repository by >> >>>>>>>> having a repository for rmobile made. >> >>>>>>> >> >>>>>>> If this is an ARM SoC, then it should go through the ARM repo >> >>>>>>> - even if we should later decide that there is so much traffic >> >>>>>>> that a separate rmobile repo would be sustified, thi would >> >>>>>>> still be a sub-repo, which Albert would pull from. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> Another option, which Mike is using for, iirc, sf and blackfin, >> >>>>>> is just to add rmobile-master / rmobile-next as branches to the >> >>>>>> u-boot-sh repository. >> >>>>> >> >>>>> Yes, this is one of easy way. But Albert won't pull form >> >>>>> u-boot-sh, if If my understanding is not wrong. >> >>>> >> >>>> This just means that they'll end up on u-boot/master from >> >>>> u-boot.sh (and from there into u-boot-arm later on). >> >>> >> >>> To be clear, what I'm saying is just add a few more branches to >> >>> u-boot-sh that Albert will pull (since they're ARM stuff). Say >> >>> u-boot-sh/rmobile/master and u-boot-sh/rmobile/next. Then not get >> >>> too hung up on which repository a merge message comes from. :) >> >>> >> >> >> >> I was going to do by how to explain you. >> >> However, I think that Albert mistook by my shortage of explanation. >> >> Thank you for following up. >> >> >> >> Nobuhiro >> > >> > I understand that some ARM patches would be stored in some branch >> > (say rmobile/master) of the u-boot-sh repo and pull-requested to me >> > from there. >> > >> > What I still don't understand is *why* this should be done. Before >> > they get on this branch, the patches would still have to go through >> > the mailing list for review, just like the ARM patches that end up >> > applied to u-boot-arm/master, except they'd have to do through an >> > intermediate branch. If there are benefits in this, someone will >> > have to lay them out for me, because right now I don't see them. >> >> I think the answer is, given how you wish to work, there's not. It's >> a workflow problem only. If it's no easier for you to get a pull >> request from Nobuhiro once the patches have been reviewed than for >> you to pull them out of patchwork once they have been reviewed, then >> since your preference is for patchwork, via patchwork and into >> u-boot-arm is how they'll work. > > Thanks for this answer. I personally prefer applying patches from > patchwork directly into u-boot-arm/master. > OK, could you pickup rmobile patches from patchwork, please? But I already archived rmobile patches in patchwork......
Best regards, Nobuhiro -- Nobuhiro Iwamatsu iwamatsu at {nigauri.org / debian.org} GPG ID: 40AD1FA6 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot